Winnipeg Copwatch

Earlier this year, a disturbing trend was emerging in the US states of Illinois, Maryland, and Massachusetts: people were being charged simply for filming the police. In June, Gizmodo’s Wendy McElroy did an excellent writeup called Are Cameras the New Guns? in which she pointed to the case of Anthony Graber, a motorcyclist whose helmet-cam [...]

Radley Balko published an article today that discusses cameras to use when copwatching. It looks mostly at tools to keep your footage safe from police who might want to confiscate or delete it, which has been a big problem in Winnipeg, among other cities. One of the things mentioned is new software for iPhone or [...]